Human Rights Day was celebrated on Saturday and in the same vein, the country laid to rest one of its struggle stalwarts, the late Collins Chabane who died in a car accident with his two body guards last week.
The good thing, for once, was that it was on Human Rights Day all three were honoured and buried in the same way, not discriminating against the body guards, but as equals in the face of humanity and the Creator, God, the Almighty, created us as equals before His eyes, but we chose to introduce class and hierarchy among ourselves, which doesn’t exist with the Creator.
What I also marvelled at during the past two weeks and the last one, in particular, is that we have seen ANC members talking real politics on podiums in stead of bickering among themselves and in factional groups – that had deviated them from talking politics, but attacking one another with some having adopted the PHD syndrome (pull him down) in order to take over leadership of the organisation, eventually the country.
Do we really need to see burials and reburials of veterans of the struggle to hear them talk about real politics so that all and sundry can understand what they are all about?
These sad tragedies have come at an opportune time to fine-tune all structures of all political parties to reorganise themselves into real powerhouses as we have recently seen the DA also reorganising its leadership structures countrywide to align themselves for the forthcoming local government elections in 2016 which are very crucial for parties to seize the opportunity of winning over the electorate.
The reburials of former stalwarts JB Marks and Moses Kotane have also come as a blessing to the ruling party to enjoy the most listenership and audiences in print and electronic media to tell their good story from its inception until currently – if they can’t score points on these, then there will never be another opportunity that will present itself at a time when they are facing the stiffest opposition, both in the National Assembly and in provincial legislatures.
They got a reprieve to lift their heads and talk with pride, but the challenge is for them to emulate leaders Marks and Kotane and follow in their footsteps if they are to succeed and continue to rule this country until Jesus returns, as they proudly boast on all podiums.
If we’re waiting for Jesus to return to earth, what if He comes back tomorrow, then they need to do good unto humanity on a daily basis.
Human Rights Day should be celebrated daily, finish and klaar!
